Title:Politics and Constitutional Courts A Judge’s Personal Perspective
Author(s):SAFJAN, MarekDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The paper deals with different forms of political impact on the constitutional justice.
The main subject of presentation is the analysis of recent Polish experiences which can
help to identify better the threats to the ...
Title:Portrait of the EU as a Rational Man: Collective reason and democratic deficit
Author(s):PASKALEV, VescoDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:In the present paper I take a critical view on the well-known discursive dilemma which captures the difference between governance by collective reasoning or governance responsive to majoritarian will. Then I suggest the ...
Title:The Post-national Constellation of Industrial Relations Systems in the European Legal Order
Author(s):COMANDÈ, DanielaDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper develops a new interpretation of the norms of the Treaty of Lisbon to find the juridical basis for an autonomous system of European industrial relations. In particular, the study explores the question of whether ...
Title:Poteri e contropoteri nel nuovo assetto costituzionale della V Repubblica francese
Author(s):FABBRINI, FedericoDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:Forum di Quaderni CostituzionaliAbstract:The commentary analyzes the balance of powers in the French constitutional system emerging from the constitutional reform of 2008.
Title:Presumptions and Burdens of Proof
Author(s):PRAKKEN, Henry; SARTOR, GiovanniDate:2006Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:This paper studies the logical modelling of presumptions and their effects on the burden of proof.
Presumptions are modelled as default rules and their effect on the burden of proof is defined in
terms of a distinction ...
Title:The Principle of Proportionality in the Viking and Laval Cases: An appropriate standard of judicial review?
Author(s):HÖS, NikolettDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The article analyses the application of the proportionality principle in the Viking and Laval judgments. It argues that one of the main reasons why the outcome of these two eminent cases became so controversial was because ...
Title:Privacy, Reputation, and Trust: Some Implications for Data Protection
Author(s):SARTOR, GiovanniDate:2006Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The present contribution analyses the connection between privacy and trust, with regard to data
protection. In particular, it shows how the need to facilitate trust-based relationships may justify
some limitations of ...
Title:Private Regulation and Industrial Organisation: The network approach
Author(s):CAFAGGI, Fabrizio; IAMICELI, PaolaDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The paper investigates the relation between private transnational regulation through standards and the formation of transnational networks. More particularly, focusing on standards compliance, the analysis is intended to ...
Title:Private Regulation in European Private Law
Author(s):CAFAGGI, FabrizioDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:European private regulation pre-existed European Community law and co-exists with it today, giving rise to different forms of complementarity with European legislation. While in the initial stage of jus commune, a stronger ...
Title:Private Regulation, Freedom of Expression and Journalism: Towards a European approach?
Author(s):CAFAGGI, Fabrizio; CASAROSA, FedericaDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The increasing role of electronic media in news and, more generally, in content production is changing the scope and boundaries of the journalism profession and the instruments deployed to regulate the activity. Historically, ...
Title:The Privatization of Military and Security Services and the Limits of Contract Law
Author(s):CALDERAI, ValentinaDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP;2010/31Abstract:A growing body of literature has focused in recent years on the potentialities for market mechanisms to improve the enforcement of international human rights law against the breaches committed by private military and ...
Title:Le processus des ratifications du traité établissant une Constitution pour l’Europe et la période de réflexion
Author(s):ZILLER, JacquesDate:2006Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The paper examines the process of ratification of the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe in the member states of the European Union, from the date of its signature in Rome on 29 October 2004 to the European ...
Title:Product Safety, Private Standard Setting and Information Networks
Author(s):CAFAGGI, FabrizioDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:This essay deals with product safety and liability, looking in particular at the
interaction between regulation, contract and civil liability. Risk definition, assessment
and management in product safety has changed in ...